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Don't be a dink.
Don't know what to tell you. My heart was in my throat the entire book (from the moment the crime was committed). Rarely have I found a book so filled with psychological tension. . . .
You have to like the 'In the writer's head' style of detached consciousness' to love Crime and Punishment...much like The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)...if that style is not for you-then Crime and Punishment won't appeal...I loved it
Loved the whole thing, but laughed out loud at the last couple of pages.
It appears Doestoevsky had a dark sense of humor in real life as well....take a look at his response to his publisher, after having been rushed to finish:
"I wrote [this chapter] with genuine inspiration, but perhaps it is no good; but for them the question is not its literary worth, they are worried about its morality. Here I was in the right—nothing was against morality, and even quite the contrary, but they saw otherwise and, what's more, saw traces of nihilism ... I took it back, and this revision of a large chapter cost me at least three new chapters of work, judging by the effort and the weariness; but I corrected it and gave it back".
— Dostoyevsky's letter to A.P. Milyukov[15]
Make it a rule to read 80 pages, if the book does not interest you then drop it, it's not for you.
what if the book is only 83 pages and its not to your licking do you read the remaining 3?
Ive read Dostys stuff twice and C & P is his worst. The Idiot is his best novel. Dont get me wrong, Dosty is the tops, but Ive never rated C&P
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Don't know what to tell you. My heart was in my throat the entire book (from the moment the crime was committed). Rarely have I found a book so filled with psychological tension. . . .
You have to like the 'In the writer's head' style of detached consciousness' to love Crime and Punishment...much like The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)...if that style is not for you-then Crime and Punishment won't appeal...I loved it
Loved the whole thing, but laughed out loud at the last couple of pages.
It appears Doestoevsky had a dark sense of humor in real life as well....take a look at his response to his publisher, after having been rushed to finish:"I wrote [this chapter] with genuine inspiration, but perhaps it is no good; but for them the question is not its literary worth, they are worried about its morality. Here I was in the right—nothing was against morality, and even quite the contrary, but they saw otherwise and, what's more, saw traces of nihilism ... I took it back, and this revision of a large chapter cost me at least three new chapters of work, judging by the effort and the weariness; but I corrected it and gave it back".
— Dostoyevsky's letter to A.P. Milyukov[15]
Make it a rule to read 80 pages, if the book does not interest you then drop it, it's not for you.
what if the book is only 83 pages and its not to your licking do you read the remaining 3?
Ive read Dostys stuff twice and C & P is his worst. The Idiot is his best novel. Dont get me wrong, Dosty is the tops, but Ive never rated C&P
